President of Sony's Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has announced that the PlayStation 4 exclusive The Last Guardian has gone gold. The game has been in development for over 9 years.

The Last Guardian has been in development since 2007. The game was first announced at E3 2009 and was planned to be released in 2011 exclusively for the PlayStation 3.

Because the game suffered numerous delays developer Japan Studio eventually decided to scrap the PlayStation 3 release in favour of a PlayStation 4 release.

In The Last Guardian, the player controls a young boy who befriends a giant half-bird-half-mammal creature, Trico, and the two work together to evade guards that are after them both.

In the game the player must manipulate Trico as they would a real animal, such as luring it with food, to use it to reach high platforms or other remote places, while evading enemies.

Now that the game has gone gold the game discs are being pressed for the retail release on December 6th 2016.